The Best UK Cyber Monday and Black Friday 2015 Deals: Gadgets, Games and More (Updated)

Did you lay your wallets at the altar of Black Friday? If you were after the best UK Black Friday 2015 deals, I'm sorry to break it to you, but there's more to come. Today is Cyber Monday, and retailers are slashing the prices of loads more goodies as the weekend shopping event draws to a close.

What started in the US and Canada as a mass-consumerist blowout straight after Thanksgiving has become a UK obsession too. An international eruption of gigantic sales, rock-bottom prices and CCTV footage of shoppers knocking seven shades of crap out of each other for a whole weekend – with the UK home to some of the biggest savings.

In 2015, Black Friday is Friday 27 November, swiftly followed by Cyber Monday on Monday 30 November. You want this year's biggest Cyber Monday deals? Our Dealzmodo super hub is back with a vengeance. We'll be updating this page throughout today for one final push of deals and retailer updates, before turning our attentions before climbing into hibernation for another year money-saved year.

So hit that bookmark button, and sit tight. We're about to sort out Christmas for you. Below, you'll find categorised tech deals along with our favourite stand-out offers, as well as links to discounted retailers, and those who posted up early Black Friday offers. Some will be limited-time only deals, so act fast – once they're gone, they're gone.

Save up to £99 on the upfront price of the Sony Xperia Z5 with the Black Friday voucher code BLAFRIZ5. That leaves you getting the phone completely free upfront instead of paying £99/£84.99. Not only that, but you'll also get a free Sony Bluetooth speaker worth £80 at the same time. Get this deal in Green or Get this deal in Black or Get this deal in Gold

Nikon AW130 waterproof camera Waterproof to 30m, shockproof to a height of 2m and freezeproof down to -10 degrees, this is a great camera for adventure fans at a great price – and you get a free accessory kit worth £59.99, now £199 at Wex Photographic

Manfrotto MT190CXPro4 tripod with bag and free head The MT190CXPro4 is a sturdy but lightweight carbon fibre tripod, sold here with a free Manfrotto bag and free XPro 3 way head via redemption from Manfrotto now £249 at Wex Photographic

Nikon D7200, 18-105mm lens and free battery grip from Nikon Nikon's top DX format DSLR and 18-105mm kit lens are a great combo at this price, and the free grip is worth £229, now £889 at Jessops

Best UK Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 Deals: Early-Bird Offers

Ebuyer has jumped the gun on Black Friday, instead offering its own "Orange Thursday" deals. As you'd expect from the computing retailer, PCs and components feature heavily, but there's also a number of mobile and gaming deals worth looking at too. These are the best of 'em:

Amazon is getting in on the Black Friday-Cyber Monday action early by announcing a £20 discount on Prime membership - which offers unlimited free delivery - until Wednesday 18 November. On top of that, Amazon is also extending its Daily Deals offers all this week, with the first Amazon Black Friday deals offering a good price on the Indiana Jones Blu-ray box set.

The Philips SW700M/05 Multiroom Speaker (which is specially designed to work with Spotify Connect) is a £90 hunk of audio kit that is on sale for just £29.95 today (17/11/2015) – a huge saving of 67 per cent. You need a premium Spotify account to use the thing, so bear that in mind. Check out the deal over at Amazon now.

Xbox One: Our buddies over at TechRadar have nabbed an exclusive Black Friday deal code, TRDXBOX, to be used at checkout to get a brand new Xbox One 500GB with a copy of FIFA 16 for £269.99 - saving £50 on the normal price of £319.99. There's only 250 available at these offer prices, so snap 'em up quickly. [Get this deal!]

There's a super-cheap, super fantastic deal going over at Mobiles.co.uk on the 64GB version of the iPhone 6S. In fact, it's so good, we had to give it its own post! The long and the short? You can save £100 on the phone in any colour with the voucher code BLACKNOV15. Instead of £175 up front you'll only have to pay £75. You'll need to sign up to a contract of £31 per month on O2, but for that you'll get unlimited calls/texts and 3GB data.

What is Black Friday?

Black Friday is the first Friday after Thanksgiving and is a perfect storm for retailers: many people in the states have the day off and, as a result, it's been the busiest shopping day of the year for nearly a decade. To make things even busier, many retailers now offer some of their best sale bargains on Black Friday.

When is Black Friday?

In 2015, Black Friday is Friday 27 November.

How did Black Friday get its name?

Take your pick: some say it's the day that retailers' profits finally move into the black, although Wikipedia's hive mind reckons that the true origin of the term comes from Philadelphia, where it referred to the disruptive pedestrian, and vehicle, traffic that occurred during the holiday.

Is Black Friday as big a deal as it seems?

Yes it is. Every year there are reports of fisticuffs as bargain-crazed shoppers beat each other up, partly because of the practice of using "doorbusters": amazing and excruciatingly limited deals to attract as many customers as possible. US-based retailers such as Amazon are now keen to make it a tradition here in the UK, too.

Is Black Friday connected to Cyber Monday?

Cyber Monday is the Monday immediately after Black Friday (that'll be Monday 30 November in 2015, then), and it was invented in 2005 in an attempt to create an online equivalent of Black Friday. What this has resulted in now, though, is an entire four-day weekend of hot deals both in store and online.

What is Giz UK doing for Black Friday, then?

No one likes a tech bargain more than us – and we don't want to keep them all to ourselves. So we'll be beavering away tirelessly to bring you the hottest deals as they go live online on the back day – and any we think are worth your time beforehand, too. Why you'll need to keep your wits about you, because many deals only last for an hour or until stocks run out, 2014's deals hub broke Gizmodo UK records it was so popular, so we'll be sure to sate your sales cravings this year, too.